Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual

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Of course the 5th edition has not been released yet, however, based on people's experiences with the 4th edition, will the 5th edition be the gold standard of endgame theory?

Since it first appeared in 2003, Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual has been acclaimed as the best single volume ever written on the endgame.

All about the game of chess, including discussions on professional tournaments, game analysis and theory. So the 5th edition of Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual is coming out in August and I am an average or maybe below the average player (around 1500 chess. German grandmaster Karsten Müller, widely recognized as one of the best endgame theoreticians in the world today, has carefully updated the fifth edition with the help of American grandmaster Alex Fishbein.

If you are new to the game, check out /r/chessbeginners and before posting here please read our rules: https://www. With staggering depth and accuracy, it clearly reveals the secrets of this most important stage of the game. It is eminently suitable to sit in an amateur player’s library as their only endgame book, and equally good at preparing a serious student for many other fine endgame books – not forgetting of course the storied father of this volume, Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual.

The incredible instructional value of the exercises has been preserved, and the blue text used in the first four editions has been replaced with text with a light grey background. I want to find the most complete book for the endgame so I don't have to purchase multiple books and sift through each one. When it appeared in 2003, the first edition of Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual was immediately recognized by novice and master alike as one of the best books ever published on the endgame. His works on the middlegame and endgame have set the standard by which other chess books are measured.